On Thursday, March 1, 2018 at 9:31:26 PM UTC-5, Mike Bayer wrote:
not that I'm aware of. it's a matter of whichever is more convenient > given the kind of expression that is applied with DESC (e.g. a more > complex expression might look more natural enclosed in desc()). > I've had some advanced queries with joins/unions in the past where a `.desc()` didn't work and they needed to be wrapped as `desc(foo)`. I think those edge cases have all been resolved in the past few years. as a style convention, our code always uses `column.desc()` unless it can't. -- SQLAlchemy - The Python SQL Toolkit and Object Relational Mapper http://www.sqlalchemy.org/ To post example code, please provide an MCVE: Minimal, Complete, and Verifiable Example. See http://stackoverflow.com/help/mcve for a full description. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sqlalchemy" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sqlalchemy+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to sqlalchemy@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/sqlalchemy. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.